Mobile Solution Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; Híbrido; GBP 93.000 - 126.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

30 days holiday

Pension contribution

Performance bonus

Private medical benefit

Flexible benefits

Learning & development

Descripción de la vacante

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Solution Architect (Mobile) to shape the future mobile technology landscape. The role is based in Bristol or London and involves defining and orchestrating complex solution architectures that support strategic business outcomes in line with our technology strategy.

You will work across product, engineering and architecture teams to provide technical direction, move delivery faster, and ensure mobile solutions are secure, resilient and scalable.

Formación

• Significant experience designing and leading end-to-end solution architectures across applications, services, platforms and environments.
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture principles across Android and iOS, including APIs and backend integration.
• Experience shaping architectural roadmaps and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Understanding of security, resilience, and operational readiness considerations.
• Experience working in agile delivery environments and partnering with engineering, product and architecture teams.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the end-to-end solution architecture for complex mobile initiatives, aligning with objectives.
• Create architecture roadmaps, designs and technical options to enable delivery at pace.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to align priorities and plans.
• Embed secure-by-design and resilient-by-design principles into mobile solutions from discovery to live service.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, debt and cross‑platform dependencies while balancing priorities.

Conocimientos

Solution architecture

Mobile architecture

Agile delivery

Security & resilience

Technical leadership

Descripción del empleo

End Date Sunday 08 November 2026

Salary Range £92,701 - £109,060

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options: Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary . Job Description Senior Solution Architect (Mobile)

LOCATION(S): Bristol or London

SALARY: Bristol £92,701 - £109,060 / London £107,304 - £126,240

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity We're looking for a Senior Solution Architect to help shape the future of our mobile technology landscape. This is a senior architecture role where you'll define and orchestrate complex solution architectures that support strategic business outcomes and align with our wider technology strategy. You'll work across product, engineering and architecture teams to provide a clear technical direction, helping delivery teams move faster by resolving architectural complexity early and ensuring solutions are secure, resilient and scalable. You'll play a key role in shaping the architecture roadmap for our mobile platforms, influencing decisions that impact customer experience, engineering effectiveness and long-term technology sustainability.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the end-to-end solution architecture for complex mobile initiatives, ensuring designs support customer, business and technology objectives.
• Creating architecture roadmaps, solution designs and technical options that enable delivery teams to make informed decisions and deliver at pace.
• Working with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to align strategic priorities, dependencies and delivery plans.
• Embedding secure-by-design and resilient-by-design principles into mobile solutions from discovery through to live service.
• Identifying and managing architectural risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health.
• Driving the adoption of common patterns, reusable capabilities and engineering standards across mobile teams.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing in our people, technology and data is at the heart of our strategy to become a stronger, more innovative organisation that delivers better outcomes for our customers. Our technology teams solve complex challenges at scale, work with modern engineering practices and collaborate across disciplines to create services that make a real difference to millions of customers every day. If you're passionate about architecture, technology strategy and helping teams deliver exceptional outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll need:

• Significant experience designing and leading end-to-end solution architectures across applications, services, platforms and operational environments.
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture principles across Android and iOS platforms, including integration with APIs, backend services and shared platform capabilities.
• Experience shaping architectural roadmaps, evaluating options and communicating technical trade-offs to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of security and resilience principles, including secure design, risk management and operational readiness considerations.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments and partnering closely with engineering, product and architecture teams.
• Proven ability to influence decisions, build alignment and provide technical leadership across complex, multi-disciplinary environments.

And any experience of this would be really useful:

• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment or another large-scale, complex organisation.
• Experience with cloud technologies, microservices, observability, platform engineering or service reliability practices.
• Experience contributing to architecture standards, reference patterns, technical communities or engineering capability development.

Benefits

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A generous pension contribution.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical benefit and wellbeing support.
• Access to flexible benefits that you can tailor to your lifestyle and priorities.
• Opportunities for learning, development and career progression across one of the UK's largest financial services organisations.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. With 320 years under our belt, we’re used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.